Online Safety Bill Etc

In theory, the final sanction is that all UK ISPs are ordered to block access to those services. Which is a politically impossible move to make, and that above everything else exposes the utter absurdity of an individual jurisdiction trying to go after a multinational corporation that only exists online.

[Sirius]

In simple terms nothing will happen, even if isps are told to block it you will still be able to access them via a vpn. It will just make even more users install a vpn.

[RichardCoulter]

I thought that the UK had adopted all EU legislation en masse??

Either way, if meta have breached the EU version of the Online Safety Act (OSA), it's likely that they will be in breach of the UK, the various American states and other countries who have their own versions of the OSA in place.

I'm sure that Ofcom will be keeping an eye on the outcome of this case.

[Carth]

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter

I thought that the UK had adopted all EU legislation en masse??

Either way, if meta have breached the EU version of the Online Safety Act (OSA), it's likely that they will be in breach of the UK, the various American states and other countries who have their own versions of the OSA in place.

I'm sure that Ofcom will be keeping an eye on the outcome of this case.

If so, that'll be the eye with the eye patch

Originally Posted by Chris

In theory, the final sanction is that all UK ISPs are ordered to block access to those services.

Blocking orders in the UK only seem to apply to what they call the "Big 5" ISPs **.
For example, I have access to all torrent sites blocked by UK court orders, as I'm not with any of them.

Plus of course, people will simply use VPNs and/or proxy servers, as they do now.

** BT, Sky, Virgin Media, TalkTalk, and EE (AFAIK).

[nffc]

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter

I thought that the UK had adopted all EU legislation en masse??

Either way, if meta have breached the EU version of the Online Safety Act (OSA), it's likely that they will be in breach of the UK, the various American states and other countries who have their own versions of the OSA in place.

I'm sure that Ofcom will be keeping an eye on the outcome of this case.

EU Law could never be automatically bound into UK law but there was always basically an agreement that it would, after Brexit any existing EU legislation was either converted into UK law or repealed. Anything they do now simply doesn't apply unless our Parliament could do the same.

Even when we were in the EU only the UK parliament could make laws.